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Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organizing Committee President and former Japan PM Yoshiro Mori "faced some tough questions from the international media at a news conference" in Sochi, according to Jack Gallagher of the JAPAN TIMES. One reporter "wanted to know why the 76-year-old Mori spoke in Japanese in ...

Russian state TV aired footage on Friday of "five floating snowflakes turning into the Olympic rings and bursting into pyrotechnics" at the Sochi Games Opening Ceremony, according to Nataliya Vasilyeva of the AP. Problem is, "that didn’t happen." The Opening Ceremony "hit a bump when only four ...

The organizers of the Sochi Games said on Sunday they had sold 92% of the tickets available for the first day of main competition but "admitted thousands had not made it on time due to tight security," according to the AFP. The first day of medal competition on Saturday saw "reasonable crowds but so ...

Russia said on Thursday that its Sochi Olympics "were as safe as any place in the West from militant attacks after Washington warned airports and some airlines that toothpaste tubes could be used to smuggle bomb-making materials onto a Russia-bound plane," according to Mike Collet-White of REUTERS. ...

The IOC "cast its eyes past the most expensive Games ever staged and began to look for ways of revamping the global sporting spectacular," according to Karolos Grohmann of REUTERS. The IOC, which picked Sochi in '07 "despite it having virtually no venues in place," said that it "was time to take ano ...

Russia's state-run bank Vnesheconombank is to give an extension to investors at Sochi Olympics venues. RIA Novosti quoted Deputy PM Dmitry Kozak, who is in charge of the Sochi Olympics, as saying that Sochi investors will not have to make any credit payments until the fall of '15. Kozak said, "Let's ...

IOC President Thomas Bach said that the Sochi Winter Olympics "are a purely sporting event which should not be used by uninvited guests to score political points," according to Karolos Grohmann of REUTERS. In a clear reference to world leaders who publicly refused to attend the first Winter Games in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin "has arrived in Sochi to welcome heads of state and top Olympic officials to the Winter Games," according to Roland Oliphant of the London TELEGRAPH. Putin will meet with IOC President Thomas Bach on Tuesday afternoon and "will hold a series of meetings with visiting ...

Large crates of equipment stand unopened outside the entrance to the plush new Swissotel above Sochi "as it scrambles to be ready for the start of the Winter Olympics," according to Heritage & Pilat of REUTERS. A bricklayer in a woolen hat "puts the finishing touches to a nearby wall, workers in ...

A leading lawmaker in Russia "has called on the ban on selling beer at sporting events to be lifted ahead of the country hosting the football World Cup in 2018, echoing a similar earlier appeal by President Vladimir Putin," according to RIA NOVOSTI. Igor Rudensky, who heads the Committee on Economi ...